I would like to give a huge thanks to Dan Wellman for allowing me the opportunity to update one of his books; it has been a pleasure and a privilege. I just hope I've done justice to it! I also thank the reviewers for their help in reviewing the book, along with their constructive feedback. Thanks must also go to family and friends for their support and encouragement; it makes working the long hours all the more worthwhile.
About the Reviewers
Aamir Afridi is a London-based frontend developer and has a passion for JavaScript and jQuery. He has been working on different projects for Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Apple. He is now helping TES in refactoring the frontend architecture. He is always keen in learning new JavaScript frameworks and wrote quite a few jQuery plugins and jQuery UI extensions. He can be found at http://aamirafridi.com/ on the Web. He is aamirafridi on Twitter and GitHub.
Islam AlZatary graduated in Computer Information System from Jordan in 2008. He worked for two years as a PHP web developer, and then he was appointed as a frontend engineer at Bayt.com.
He deals with jQuery, jQuery UI, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Bootstrap framework, Mailer engine, JavaScript frameworks (RequireJS, AngularJS), and with all design approaches (fixed, fluid, responsive, adaptive). He also likes the "mobile first approach".
Stephen Holsinger has been developing on the Web professionally for over seven years. He has worked for service companies and manufacturers, primarily focusing on e-commerce platform and website development. His experience stretches from backend system integration to frontend web development. He currently works as an independent contractor lending his expertise to clients implementing retail sites on the Demandware Commerce SaaS Platform.
Kristian Mandrup has a master's degree in Computer Science from Copenhagen University.
He has been developing software since he got his first computer at the age of 12 and has always been curious and always asks the hard questions: why? He likes to push the techs to the limits and live on the bleeding edge. He is always on the move, on new adventures and explorations, since the techs and tools never feel quite good enough.
He is a toolmaker and an architect more than a traditional software developer. He has crossed various platform boundaries over the year and has lately shifted from the Ruby on Rails platform to the new frontier of Node.js and the MEAN stack. He is currently exploring single-page, real-time applications. He likes to combine many of the best techs available into a high-powered stack. This is where jQuery UI fits in perfectly.
You can find Kristian on GitHub at https://github.com/kristianmandrup and his Twitter handle is @kmandrup
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Marjorie Roswell is a web developer from Baltimore, MD. She has been building websites that serve the community for more than a decade.
She wrote the Drupal 5 Views Recipes book for Packt Publishing. She has developed a GIS system for assisting citizen callers to the Baltimore Office of Recycling, and has taught professional classes in desktop publishing, AutoCAD, and Drupal. She currently serves clients as a NationBuilder website developer.
While in college, Marjorie received the Betty Flanders Thomson Prize for Excellence in Botany. Her http://FarmBillPrimer.org site is devoted to mapping and charting federal food and farm policy.
The author of this book has a masterful knowledge of jQuery UI, and Packt Publishing staff Anugya Khurana and Prachi Bisht have been terrific to work with during the review process.